Dr. Schwab is currently Professor of Surgery. In 1987, Dr. Schwab established a Level I Regional Resource Trauma Center, Surgical Critical Care Service, the PennSTAR Flight Program and the Communications Center at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Today, Dr. Schwab’s surgical practice focuses on caring for the severely injured patient and developing regional trauma and emergency care systems. He is one of the first traumatologists to study the effects of trauma in the elderly patient. In addition, Dr. Schwab is active in the field of violence prevention and continues to teach trauma surgeons how to become leaders in the public health effort to reduce firearm-related injuries. He directs the University of Pennsylvania Trauma Network. This involves administrating and coordinating several centers throughout Eastern Pennsylvania with Penn’s Level I trauma center to enhance the quality of trauma and emergency care. Lastly, he directs the fellowship program in trauma surgery and critical care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, a program with ten trainees annually and over 70 graduates located throughout the world.

Faculty Appointments

2005 - present

The Reading Hospital and Medical Center
Active (Provisional) Medical Staff, Department of Surgery/Section of General Surgery/Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Eastman AB, Schwab CW: Trauma care systems: Setting the national agenda for injury control in the 1990's. Position papers from the Third National Injury Control Conference, Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Denver, CO, April, 22-25, 1991, pp 377-426.

Schwab CW: (Chairman - The Violence Prevention Task Force of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma): Violence in America: A public health crisis-the role of firearms. J Trauma 38:162, 1995.

Schwab CW, Sing RF, Branas CC, Mackenzie EJ, Kauder DR: The epidemiology of nonfatal firearm injuries across regions within a state. (Poster presented at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Halifax, September 1995.)

Grossman MD, Reilly PM, McMahon DJ, Kauder DR, Schwab CW: Who pays for failed organ procurement, what is the cost of altruism? (Presented at the American Society of Transplant Physicians, Dallas, TX, May 1996.)

Grossman M, Schwab CW, Chu-Rodgers S, Kestner M: A study of trauma surgeons work at the bedside during the first 24 hours of blunt trauma care. (Presented at the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Baltimore, MD, 1998.)

Cotton BA, Insko EK, Gracias VH, Gupta R, Schwab CW: Use of goniometry to predict inadequate flexion and extension radiographs. (Presented at the American College of Surgeons/Pennsylvania Committee on Trauma, 2002.)